See your morning readiness, HRV recovery and resting heart rate trends directly from your Apple Watch.
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is the physiological phenomenon of variation in the time interval between heartbeats, measured by the variation in the beat-to-beat interval. HRV reflects your body’s ability to adapt to stress and maintain balance. This app provides an in-depth analysis of HRV SDNN values, as well as key metrics like Resting Heart Rate (RHR), HRV Readiness Score, and Recovery Ratio, recorded by your Apple Watch.
What is HRV?
HRV describes your body’s ability to adapt the frequency of your heart rhythm to meet current demands. A healthy individual constantly adjusts their heart rhythm, reflecting resilience and adaptability. Regular tracking of HRV, RHR, and related metrics can provide useful context on stress and recovery trends.
Key Features:
- HRV Analysis: View your HRV SDNN values, providing insights into your physiological state.
- RHR Monitoring: Track your Resting Heart Rate as an important personal context metric for recovery.
- HRV Readiness Score: Assess daily readiness with a relative 0-100 signal based on your personal HRV and RHR trends (around 50 reflects baseline).
- Recovery Ratio: Understand recovery relative to your own baseline (around 1.0 reflects baseline).
- Mindful filter: Separate HRV values taken during a mindful session from all other readings to spot the cleaner, more comparable trend.
Data Integration:
The app seamlessly connects with Apple’s Health app to display your recorded data on:
Apple Watch: A dedicated app and complication for quick insights.
iPhone: A user-friendly interface to analyze trends and progress.
How to Use:
Compatibility: The app requires an Apple Watch Series 3 or later.
Recording HRV Data: Use the Apple Breath App or other mindfulness apps to measure HRV values.
Consistency Matters: For accurate trends, measure HRV, RHR, and Recovery Ratio consistently in similar conditions, such as "first thing in the morning" before starting your day. Best practice: do a short mindful session right after waking to collect a reliable HRV baseline and use the mindful/non-mindful filter to compare.
This app utilizes advanced AI technology to provide context-aware coaching tailored to you.
This app uses artificial intelligence with OpenAI to analyze your data.
These metrics are informational trend tools and are not intended to diagnose medical conditions.
Medical disclaimer: HRV Watch does not provide medical diagnosis or treatment. Always seek advice from a physician or other qualified healthcare professional in addition to using this app and before making medical decisions.
Scientific references used in-app:
- HRV standards: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8598068/
- HRV review: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5624990/
- AHA heart rate guidance: https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/fitness/fitness-basics/target-heart-rates
Terms and conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Supports iOS 14 and Watch Series 6. Wish I could filter by type of reading on the Watch app but still lets me see the info on the go without my phone. Thank you.
Developer Response
Thank you so much, glad you like it!
Crashes
S. Landa
App won’t open it continuously crashes
Developer Response
Thank you for your review and sorry to hear that. I am constantly working on the app to improve it.
App crashes!
poonacha
I downloaded the app. It keeps crashing and does not load.
Developer Response
Hi Thanks for your feedback. Do you have HRV Data in your Healthapp?
Bad
Robbydiesel44
App doesn’t work. I would like a refund
Developer Response
Thank you for your review and sorry to hear that. I am constantly working on the app to improve it.
This update prevents a potential crash during HealthKit background updates on Apple Watch.
Version 2.13.1
The developer, Bernhard Hering, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
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Information
Seller
Bernhard Hering
Size
11.5 MB
Category
Health & Fitness
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
